INTERNACIONALNI UNIVERZITET BRKO PRAVNI FAKULTET

MY CHILDHOOD (seminary paper) English language IV

Professor: Mr. Sc. Kristina Varcakovi OP05/11

Student Husanovi Amel

Brko, May 2013

Introduction

In this seminary paper Im writing about my childhood. There is nothing really special about it. I have a lot of memories about the time when I was going to elementary school in Vraii and unforgettable moments. I wrote some of it in this paper and some kept for myself. When you start reading you will read some parts that I call eras. Because there was always something special for that time and wasnt repeatable. It was just that time only.

Main parts are about time during elementary school, then high school. At the end of high school ends my childhood because I wasnt anymore a child, I became an adult.

Start reading and have fun.

My childhood
I was born in 26. 03. 1990 when Bosnia and Herzegovina was still part of Yugoslavia. Of course I was born in one and only hospital in Brko. My family lived and still lives in Dizdarua. During that time I lived with my mom Alma, dad Nihad and grandparents Safet and Ramiza, so you can call it a big family.

Before war began my father worked in Austria and he saw it coming and moved back to Brko to protect his family and relatives. Then war began in Brko 01. 05. 1992 and my family had to leave Dizdarua. We moved to oseti, that's place near Rahi, where most of my grandmothers relatives lived, actually she lived in oseti before she got married. There we lived in a house of grandmas brother, Meho, who lived and worked in Austria. We lived there for some time.

Across the road I made a first ever friend called Amir. We used to play together all day every day. We didnt have many toys but still we would have much fun with what we got. I remember when my family had to move to village called Vraii. I was so sad that I had to leave my first ever friend. After that I didnt see him for quite some time because he moved too. Later when I started going to high school I saw him in town and instantly recognized him. But we didnt start to hang around after all because we had new friends and were oriented to them only.

My dad died in 16. 05. 1993 and even though I was three years old I felt a big loss. My family berried him in familys sanctuary in Vraii. There is not much to tell during that period of time but much sadness and feeling lonely. In Vraii, in a small house of just two rooms and no bathroom there was nothing much to do and there was not any children in neighborhood.

After a couple of years I met a new friend called Melisa who lived in upper part of village. Just after we met we became like a best friends ever. We used to be together all day every day, just like with Amir. If I wasnt at her house then she was at mine. It was really something magical going on with us. We would never fight, it was like we were one.

But, a day came where her family wanted to move to USA. I lost another friend and I started to be alone, again. I lost contact with her until I registered on Facebook in 2010 or so and she found me. It was a good day. Im still in contact with her but its not like it was before. After some time came a first day of school. I remember like its now, I entered my classroom and sat on teachers chair thinking it will be mine place. Then my teacher, Razija Sijari moved me somewhere else to sit with some future friend. She was a really good teacher, not the best but really good. Before school time I had like one friend at the time, but when I started going to school, I was hanging around with a ton of them. It was a huge change for me. In that classroom I met some really good friends such as Semir Arnautovi called Liga, Amir Arnautovi called ota, Elmir Arnautovi guy called ine and of course Mirza Arnautovi, who became my best friend to this day. That school time had my best childhood memories. We used to hang around all the time, it was like a small gang made of children. Before Sega Mega console we used to play football or play with toys outside. During birthdays it was crazy, bunch of kids playing around, messing with each other, playing really loudly. There was of course going to river ibonica which was down the village, where we used to catch fish, basically having so much fun.

Then came console era, time when every child had Sega Mega and diskettes. I remember playing with bunch of my friends in front of the screen Super Mario, Adventures Island and many more. It was a time when we started playing those consoles more and more, and playing football or with toys less. I had a big box of those yellow diskettes, and every Sunday was a street market where I used to buy them, mum gives me five marks and I start looking around what diskette to buy. I lived in outer side of Vraii and had to walk long to get to school which was in the middle of village. I used to go to Mirzas house wait him to dress up and walk with him to school every day. We hanged around all the time. I remember he had Sega too, and he had a biggest TV of all of us but it was placed really high, we used to sit on the floor play games and look at the sky, because we were so small and TV was really high. I dont remember how old we were when he got his first computer. I remember clearly, my friends and I rushed to his house after school to see a computer, he brought outside monitor and we were all like wow, its so cool.

Then came a computer era, a time when every child had to have one. I got my first computer from a cousin from Austria. It was a Pentium II with 533MHz processor, 128MB of ram and integrated graphic. It was a beast, I played Midtown madness II, Donald Duck, and Pokemon. I was a big fan of Pokemon, and when my cousin gave me emulator to play Nintendo games such as pokemon and others on PC it got me hooked. Then I gave pokemon games to Mirza and Semir. I remember when someone catches some good pokemon, he instantly calls other two friends and then they rush to him to check it out. You had to see it to believe it. I was a big fan of collecting pictures of Pokemon, Digimon and football players. In front of school we had a little gambling scheme. There was a game called cijela pola. For example, if someone says cijela and hits from top of his opponents card with his card and those cards (or pictures) drop on all pictures or all no pictures, he gets his opponents card, if not he loses his own card. I got hooked on that too, and spent like a ton of money to buy those cards.

Then came a farewell to my elementary school and say hello to high school. Most of my friends went to high school in eli, including my best friend, but I chose Technical school in Brko. That was a year 2004 when I started high school. My family and I moved back to Brko in our old new house in Dizdarua. It was a big change for me, mainly because I lost all my friends, again. High school was so much different than elementary school. It was so much harder for me. I studied for technician for computers. There were some really bad professors, and some really good ones. A good professor is called Mirsad, I dont remember his last name. He was THE MAN. He was like student, not a professor, really a great man. I remember when I had practice classes, which were 4 classes in a row professor would let us go for one class, and we would go behind the school, where is a place called Ficibajer. My friends and I used to hand around there, play some football, basketball or just sit and talk.

At the end of high school I wanted to get a driving license, started learning for driving exams and passed them when I was 17. Later, when I was 18 I passed practical exams and got my driving license. My relatives gave me about 5.400 KM to buy myself a car. I bought Golf mk2 which was a really bad decision, but enough of that. I graduated in 2008 and started thinking about what to do next, I knew I had to keep on studding so I signed on to study Law, that was another mistake. I wasnt ready for that change and here I am now.

This was my childhood, I could write more but I wanted to keep some information for myself only. There were many ups and downs in my life, that I didnt mention.

Conclusion
I made a lot of friends, lost a lot of friends. I lost my dad when I was really young so I didnt have a role model but still I grew up OK.

I think I had an OK childhood, some things were bad, but after war it was really good, something that todays kids will never experience. Todays kids only play on their PC-s, talk with friends only on facebook, which wasnt the case in my time.

When I was a child there were computers, consoles and other stuff but we were healthier because we were surrounded with bunch of friends, went to play by the river, go to mountains and did many many other stuff.